The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.

...[W]hen death comes to a man, the mortal part of him dies, but the immortal part retires at the approach of death and escapes unharmed and indestructible... [I]t is as certain as anything can be... that soul is immortal and imperishable, and that our souls will really exist in the next world.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Death has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them